The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Charlie is a journalist and podcaster. From 1993 to 2016, he hosted a conservative talk show on WTMJ in Milwaukee. He was also the editor of Right Wisconsin, the editor-in-chief of The Bulwark, and a commentator on MSNBC. He recently went fully independent with his own substack, “To the Contrary” — subscribe!...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Claire is an American novelist, essayist, and journalist living in Paris. She’s the editor-in-chief of The Cosmopolitan Globalist — subscribe! — and the author of many books, including There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters , and the novel Loose Lips . An auto-transcript is available above (ju...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Laura Field is a writer and political theorist who specializes in far-right populist intellectualism in the US. She’s currently a Scholar in Residence at American University, a Senior Advisor for the Illiberalism Studies Program at GW, and a nonresident fellow with Brookings. Her new book is Furious Minds : T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Arthur is an academic and writer. The former president of the American Enterprise Institute, he’s a professor at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness. The author of 13 books — including the 2023 bestseller he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey: Build...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Simon is a clinical psychologist who writes about the connections between “Narcissism, Trauma, Fame, and Power” — the name of his substack . He has over 20 years experience in the field of treatment of personality disorders and complex PTSD — the field of psychology in which narcissism is most invoked. We tal...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Shadi is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. He runs a substack with Damir Marusic called Wisdom of Crowds , and his new book is The Case for American Power . It’s the third time Shadi has been on the Dishcast. We hashed out the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com George is a journalist and novelist. He was a long-time staff writer at The New Yorker , now a staff writer at The Atlantic . He’s the author of 10 books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America — which won the National Book Award — and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the Americ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michel is a human rights lawyer and author. He’s currently a lecturer at Columbia Law School, where he teaches national security law and jurisprudence. He’s also a contributing editor at Lawfare. His latest book is The Light of Battle : Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower — an accessib...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Mark used to be the political director for ABC News and a senior political analyst at TIME magazine. Alongside John Heilemann, he co-managed Bloomberg Politics, co-hosted the shows “With All Due Respect” and “The Circus,” and co-authored Game Change and Double Down: Game Change 2012 . Last year he launched th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Fiona was an intel analyst under Bush and Obama, and then served under Trump as senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. Currently a senior fellow at Brookings and the chancellor of Durham University, her books include Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and There Is...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Cory is a behavioral scientist, the executive director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project at Penn, a visiting scholar at Penn, and an associate professor of psychology at New College of Florida. She’s also been Director of Academic Engagement for Heterodox Academy and an assistant professor of behaviora...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com David is a journalist and novelist. He’s been at the Washington Post since 1986, serving as editor of the Sunday Outlook section, foreign editor, assistant managing editor for business, and now a foreign affairs columnist. He’s also written 12 espionage thrillers — including Body of Lies , which became an A-l...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Karen is a tech journalist and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series — a program that trains journalists on how to cover AI. She was a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review and a reporter for the WSJ covering Chinese and US tech companies. Her first book is Empire of AI : Dreams and Nightmar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Charles is a writer, social scientist, and longtime friend. He currently holds the F.A. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His many books include Losing Ground , The Bell Curve (co-authored with Richard Herrnstein), Coming Apart , Facing Reality , and Human Diversit...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael is a media critic and author. He’s been a columnist for New York magazine, Vanity Fair, British GQ, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Guardian. Among his many books include four on Donald Trump — the third one we covered on the Dishcast, and the latest was All or Nothing : How Trump Recaptured America ....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Katie is a journalist, podcaster, and longtime friend of the Dish. She’s a former staff writer at The Stranger, and she’s contributed to The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Free Press, and The Weekly Dish . She hosts the podcast “Blocked and Reported” alongside Jesse Singal, and she just wrote her first book, Dri...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Wesley is an essayist and podcaster. He’s written extensively for Tablet, Esquire, and New York Magazine, and many of his essays were compiled in a book, The Souls of Yellow Folk . More of his writing and podcasting can be found on his substack, “ Year Zero .” He’s been chronicling the gender revolution aspec...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John is a journalist, media consultant, old friend, and George W Bush’s cousin. He’s worked for NBC News as a political analyst and the Boston Globe as a columnist. In 2016, he launched a morning brief called “News Items” for News Corp, and later it became the Wall Street Journal CEO Council’s morning newslet...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jill is a writer and scholar. She’s a professor of American history at Harvard, a professor of law at Harvard Law, and a staff writer at The New Yorker . She’s also the host of the podcast “X-Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story.” Her many books include These Truths: A History of the United States (which I reviewe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Niall is one of my oldest and dearest friends, stretching back to when we were both history majors and renegade rightists at Magdalen, Oxford. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He’...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com My old and dear friend Johann has written four bestsellers: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs , Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression , Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention (discussed on the Dishcast here ), and Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Scott is a war correspondent and author. His non-fiction books include Lawrence in Arabia , Fractured Lands , and The Quiet Americans, and his novels include Triage and Moonlight Hotel . He’s also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. His new book is King of Kings : The Iranian Revolution: A...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Shannon is a civil rights attorney, most notably as the lead counsel for same-sex couples in the landmark marriage case in California. He’s currently the legal director at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, where he is leading several federal court challenges to the trans military ban and other new federal...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tara Zahra is a writer and academic. She’s currently the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago. This week we discuss her latest book, Against the World : Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars. For two clips of our convo — on the starving of German...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tom is a novelist, essayist, and critic, who once described himself as a “supposed literary intellectual/homosexual/Republican.” He’s the former literary editor of GQ and a professor emeritus of English at GW. He’s the author of 11 books of fiction, including Up With the Sun , Dewey Defeats Truman , and Fello...